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Video: Bihar Official On Inspection Duty Swept Away By River, Rescued
It was a narrow escape for a Bihar official who was inspecting a collapsed embankment in Bihar's Bhagalpur district.
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Tesla Flies Over Swimming Pool, Crashes Into US Home After Driver, 70, Loses Control
In a horrifying incident, a Tesla driver in the US lost control of his car, hit an embankment and flew over a swimming pool before crashing into a home in California.
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8 People Swept Away After Pond Embankment Collapses In Madhya Pradesh
Eight persons were swept away after the embankment of a pond collapsed in Madhya Pradesh's Jhabua district, an official said on Sunday.
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Train With 100 Onboard Derails After Floods Wash Away Embankment In Sweden
Heavy rainfall drenched southern Scandinavia on Monday, causing a train to derail and roads to flood in what officials in Sweden and Norway warned could become the most extreme wet weather system to hit the region in decades.
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IIT Mandi Researchers Develop Setup To Study Climate Change Impact On Railway Embankments
IIT Mandi and Durham University, United Kingdom, have developed a suction monitoring setup for soil cyclic triaxial testing to investigate the impact of climate change on railway embankments.
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Australia PM's Security Team Injured In Car Crash
A car carrying Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's security team flipped and rolled down an embankment Thursday, with four officers taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Funds For Building Embankments In Purba Medinipur "Misused": Trinamool
Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday said funds allotted for building embankments were "misused" in Purba Medinipur in Bengal, where people were recently left homeless due to flooding caused by Cyclone "Yaas".
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Thousands Of Ageing Dams In India A Growing Threat: UN Report
Over a thousand large dams in India will be roughly 50 years old in 2025 and such aging embankments across the world pose a growing threat, according to a United Nations (UN) report which notes that by 2050, most people on Earth will live downstream of tens of thousands of dams built in the 20th century.
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Brahmaputra Dredging, Embankments' Repair Top Assam's Flood Fight List
With the floodwaters in Assam receding, the state government has decided to prioritise the mending of the breached embankments and fast-tracking land rehabilitation for those who have lost their lands to flood and erosion.
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Assam COVID Warriors Also Multitask As Flood Relief Workers Amid Crisis
Gautam Das and family are camping on this Brahmaputra river embankment for a week, ever since their village at Palashbari got flooded. The waters have receded now. But this 45-year-old wage labourer laments that the government relief has come late to his village that is just 30 km away from capital Guwahati.
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Flood Water Breaching Embankments In Assam, Endangering Crops
The floods in Assam this year have been more harmful to farmers as water is breaching river embankments. Hundreds of acres of cultivable land in many districts have been flooded, severely hitting the livelihoods of cultivators.
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China TV, Attempting Propaganda On Ladakh, Helps Boost India's Claim
A news programme on CCTV-4, the Chinese state broadcaster, claims to show an Indian helicopter pad and camps in the same embankment of the Galwan River which was later occupied and built-up by Chinese forces after violent clashes with the Indian Army on June 15. 20 Indian soldiers were killed in action and army sources believe the Chinese suffered ...
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7 Dead, 15 Lakh People Affected By Floods In Assam
Seven more people were killed in floods and related incidents across Assam, where around 15 lakh people have been affected by the deluge with embankments, roads, bridges, and many other infrastructure damaged at various places, a government report said on Wednesday.
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Black Tarpaulins Seen On Galwan River-Bend, 16 Chinese Camps Near LAC
New satellite images of the Galwan Valley procured by NDTV show black tarpaulins on an embankment of the Galwan River believed to be a Chinese position around the Line of Actual Control in the region.
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Barricades Put Up By Nepal Hindering Repair Of Embankments: Bihar Minister
The repair work of embankments along the Indo-Nepal border in Bihar has been adversely affected as barricades put up by the neighbouring nation is hindering personnel from crossing over to complete work, Water Resources Minister Sanjay Kumar Jha said on Monday.
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Video: Bihar Official On Inspection Duty Swept Away By River, Rescued
It was a narrow escape for a Bihar official who was inspecting a collapsed embankment in Bihar's Bhagalpur district.
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Tesla Flies Over Swimming Pool, Crashes Into US Home After Driver, 70, Loses Control
In a horrifying incident, a Tesla driver in the US lost control of his car, hit an embankment and flew over a swimming pool before crashing into a home in California.
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8 People Swept Away After Pond Embankment Collapses In Madhya Pradesh
Eight persons were swept away after the embankment of a pond collapsed in Madhya Pradesh's Jhabua district, an official said on Sunday.
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Train With 100 Onboard Derails After Floods Wash Away Embankment In Sweden
Heavy rainfall drenched southern Scandinavia on Monday, causing a train to derail and roads to flood in what officials in Sweden and Norway warned could become the most extreme wet weather system to hit the region in decades.
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IIT Mandi Researchers Develop Setup To Study Climate Change Impact On Railway Embankments
IIT Mandi and Durham University, United Kingdom, have developed a suction monitoring setup for soil cyclic triaxial testing to investigate the impact of climate change on railway embankments.
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Australia PM's Security Team Injured In Car Crash
A car carrying Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's security team flipped and rolled down an embankment Thursday, with four officers taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Funds For Building Embankments In Purba Medinipur "Misused": Trinamool
Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday said funds allotted for building embankments were "misused" in Purba Medinipur in Bengal, where people were recently left homeless due to flooding caused by Cyclone "Yaas".
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Thousands Of Ageing Dams In India A Growing Threat: UN Report
Over a thousand large dams in India will be roughly 50 years old in 2025 and such aging embankments across the world pose a growing threat, according to a United Nations (UN) report which notes that by 2050, most people on Earth will live downstream of tens of thousands of dams built in the 20th century.
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Brahmaputra Dredging, Embankments' Repair Top Assam's Flood Fight List
With the floodwaters in Assam receding, the state government has decided to prioritise the mending of the breached embankments and fast-tracking land rehabilitation for those who have lost their lands to flood and erosion.
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Assam COVID Warriors Also Multitask As Flood Relief Workers Amid Crisis
Gautam Das and family are camping on this Brahmaputra river embankment for a week, ever since their village at Palashbari got flooded. The waters have receded now. But this 45-year-old wage labourer laments that the government relief has come late to his village that is just 30 km away from capital Guwahati.
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Flood Water Breaching Embankments In Assam, Endangering Crops
The floods in Assam this year have been more harmful to farmers as water is breaching river embankments. Hundreds of acres of cultivable land in many districts have been flooded, severely hitting the livelihoods of cultivators.
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China TV, Attempting Propaganda On Ladakh, Helps Boost India's Claim
A news programme on CCTV-4, the Chinese state broadcaster, claims to show an Indian helicopter pad and camps in the same embankment of the Galwan River which was later occupied and built-up by Chinese forces after violent clashes with the Indian Army on June 15. 20 Indian soldiers were killed in action and army sources believe the Chinese suffered ...
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7 Dead, 15 Lakh People Affected By Floods In Assam
Seven more people were killed in floods and related incidents across Assam, where around 15 lakh people have been affected by the deluge with embankments, roads, bridges, and many other infrastructure damaged at various places, a government report said on Wednesday.
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Black Tarpaulins Seen On Galwan River-Bend, 16 Chinese Camps Near LAC
New satellite images of the Galwan Valley procured by NDTV show black tarpaulins on an embankment of the Galwan River believed to be a Chinese position around the Line of Actual Control in the region.
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Barricades Put Up By Nepal Hindering Repair Of Embankments: Bihar Minister
The repair work of embankments along the Indo-Nepal border in Bihar has been adversely affected as barricades put up by the neighbouring nation is hindering personnel from crossing over to complete work, Water Resources Minister Sanjay Kumar Jha said on Monday.
